The Comstock Lode in Nevada was and is still the richest mineral discovery in the history of the world. It brought a rare assortment of people to Nevada in the 1860s. Virginia City was the at the heart of the strike. The Big FourThey came to be known as The Big Four Bonanza Kings. John […]
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James Laird
The Territorial Enterprise and the Union Daily were rival papers. The Union was trying to be much more respectable and legit shilling for Republican politicians and was utterly unforgiving to the defeated Rebel cause. Conversely, the Enterprise wanted to be popular with miners, humorous, entertaining, it was much more agnostic when it came to politics. […]
Mary Gastor
In May 1862, the first public school on the Comstock was organized by Mary Gastor. School was held in a rented building until 1874 when a more permanent building was built by school authorities in Lower Gold Hill.